Improvement in tea and coffee pots



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EDWARD B. MANNING, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,762, dated April17, 1877; application filed November 6, 1876.

-do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent asectional side view.

' This invention relates to an improvement in that class of sheet-metaltea and coffee pots in which the metal is coated with porcelain orvitreous material; the object of the invention being, chiefly, theprotection of the exposed parts from cracking or chipping the surface;and consists in the details of construction, as hereinafter described,and recited in the several claims.

The body A of the pot may be of any of the usual forms. The bottom B issecured to the body in the usual manner. The body and bottom thus formedare coated, and the edge left exposed, rendering the surface at thatpoint liable to be chipped or cracked. To avoid this difficulty a metalring, C, is placed around the bottom the outer edge turned up over thejoint, as seen in solid black, which forms a bead upon the edge, and ametal surfaceupon the under side of the bottom, to support the pot andprevent contact of the bottom or edges with the stove or other articles,where chipping would be likelyto occur.

This part of the invention is applicable to other articles of this ware,where the same result is desirable.

The open end of the spout D is liable to the same difficulty ofchipping; and to protect this, a metal tip, E, is placed over the endand secured firmly thereto, which protects that end of the spout.

As a means of securing this tip, a wire, a,

is attached, one end to the tip on the inside, and, running down thespout, is turned up on the inside of the body of the pot, as at d. Thiswire may also be used to secure the strainer F, by passing the inner endof the wire through a perforation in the strainer, and then turning theend back upon the strainer, to bind it against the inner surface of thepot, thus securing both the strainer and the tip by the same device.

As a means for securing the neck or cover to the pot, a wire, 0, isplaced around the edge of the body before it is coated, and, in theusual manner for attaching such wire to sheetmetal articles. forming abead'like edge upon the outer surface. Over this the neck L is set, itslower edgefspun down upon the body below the wire 0, as shown. Thisfirmly unites the two, and makes a tight joint between the neck andbody. To this neck the cover P is hinged, as at h, in the usual manner.

I claim 1. In tea and coffee pots constructed from sheet metal, coatedwith a vitreous material,

a metallic tip, inclosing the outer end of the spout, substantially asdescribed.

2. In tea and coffee pots constructed from sheet metal, coated with avitreous material, a metallic tip, inclosing the outer end of the spout,and secured by a wire extending from the tip through the spout andturned onto the inside of the body, substantially as described.

3. In tea and coffee pots constructed from sheet metal, coated with avitreous material,

a metallic tip, inclosing the outer end of the spout, combined with astrainer over the inner end of the spout, and a wire connecting the saidtip and strainer through the spout to secure both, substantially asdescribed.

' EDWARD B. MANNING. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON.

